Agnes Nagy

Biography:

Ágnes Nagy is the leader of the Scientific Research Department of Hungarian Defence Forces Medical Centre Epidemiological and Scientific Research Institute. Since graudating in biology at Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences in 2001, she has been working as a scientist in a military officer position at the military medical research institute. Her primary field of interest is methodological development to identify biowarfare agents and epidemiologically significant pathogens and sub-type them at the strain level. She was the leader of an applied research project aimed at developing a prototype of a field-deployable biodefense laboratory for the Hungarian Defence Forces.